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Space Book

"JOBS for the 21st Century"

by Christopher R. Willis (1992)

This is a full length 8.5x11 book which describes in detail the development of space, the new propulsion system, the full mission to Mars, a manned mission to Jupiter, and other interesting subjects such as the spaceship design and the hydroponic food production system.

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Table of Contents

1.0 Problems, problems, problems

1.1 The power/energy problem

1.1.1 Oil, the critical resource

1.1.2 Oil, other supplies?

1.1.3 Natural gas

1.1.4 Coal

1.1.5 Hydroelectric power

1.1.6 Nuclear power

1.1.7 The United States energy situation

1.1.8 Summary of the energy situation

1.2 The worldwide food shortage

1.3 The problem of unemployment

2.0 Hydroponics - the solution to the food problem

2.1 Factors which effect yields

2.2 Analysis of vegetables

2.3 Are these numbers for real?

2.4 Analysis of fruits

2.5 Nutrient value of vegetables

2.6 Financial considerations

2.7 Financial summary

2.8 Political summary

3.0 Jobs - the solution to the unemployment problem

3.1 Jobs in the electric power industry

3.2 Jobs in the android industry

3.2.1 Android manufacturing

3.2.2 Prostheses

3.2.3 Android sales and installation

3.2.4 Android repair and service

3.2.5 Android training

3.3 Jobs in hydroponics

3.3.1 Construction

3.3.2 Research

3.3.4 Production

3.4 Jobs in space

3.4.1 Tourism

3.4.2 R & D

3.4.3 Remote control teams

3.4.4 Lunar science

4.0 Earth based facilities

4.1 The cost of payload in orbit

4.2 Alternatives to rockets

4.2.1 High Altitude Research Project (HARP)

4.2.2 Hydrogen gas gun

4.2.3 Two stage hydrogen gas gun

4.2.4 Boeing hydrogen gas gun

4.2.5 Electromagnetic "coil gun"

4.2.6 Railguns

4.2.7 Scram guns

4.2.8 Gerald Bull's Supergun

4.2.9 Sub-orbital gun

4.2.10 Summary of exotic launch systems

4.3 Current earth launch sites

4.4 Earth to moon direct

5.0 Low earth orbiting facilities

5.1 Space stations

5.1.1 Freedom space station

5.1.1.1 Alternate space station designs

5.1.1.2 Cost of space shuttle deployment of Freedom

5.1.1.3 Cost of Energia/Shuttle deployment of Freedom

5.1.2 Mir space station

5.2 LEO fuel depots

5.3 The garbage collectors/destroyers

5.4 Earth-moon transportation system

5.5 Heavy lift vehicles

5.5.1 Advanced Launch System (ALS)

5.5.2 External Tank (ET) derivatives

5.5.3 Saturn 5

5.5.4 Energia

5.5.5 Big Dumb Booster

5.5.6 Shuttle-C

5.5.7 Summary of HLVs

5.7 Political summary

6.0 Space travel

6.1 Rockets

6.2 Nuclear rockets

6.3 Other exotic methods of space travel

6.4 Spaceship propulsion by momentum transfer

6.4.1 EMPL acceleration

6.4.2 How many projectiles?

6.4.3 Spaceship acceleration

6.4.4 Spaceship power requirements

6.4.5 Flight profile to Mars

6.5 Specific impulse comparisons

6.6 Travel time comparisons

6.7 Hazards of space travel

6.8 Interstellar travel

7.0 The first lunar base

7.1 Site selection

7.2 Delivering materials to the moon

7.2.1 The skyhook

7.2.2 The electromagnetic lander

7.2.3 The lunar slide lander

7.3 Lunar products

7.3.1 Solar power facilities on the moon

7.3.2 Helium-3

7.3.3 Oxygen

7.4 The first small EMPL

7.5 Lunar hydroponic facility

7.6 What has to be taken to the moon?

7.6.1 Nuclear power source

7.6.2 The aluminum extraction machine

7.6.3 The silicon extraction machine

7.6.4 The solar cell machine

7.6.5 Androids

7.6.6 Multi-purpose vehicles

7.6.7 Volatile extraction machine

7.6.8 'Mond' process equipment

7.6.9 Vapor deposition machine

7.6.10 Mold maker machine

7.6.11 Landing guidance system

7.6.12 Communication equipment

7.6.13 Miscellaneous critical components

7.6.14 Summary of regolith processing

7.7 Summary of initial lunar base development

7.8 Costs of lunar projects

7.8.1 Past unmanned US lunar projects

7.8.1.1 Ranger series

7.8.1.2 Lunar Orbiters

7.8.1.3 Surveyor series

7.8.1.4 Summary of unmanned US lunar programs

7.8.2 The Apollo (manned) program

7.8.2.1 Apollo 11

7.8.2.2 Apollo 12

7.8.2.3 Apollo 14

7.8.2.4 Apollo 15

7.8.2.5 Apollo 16

7.8.2.6 Apollo 17

7.8.2.7 Cost of the Apollo program

7.8.3 Current lunar projects

7.8.4 Future lunar projects

7.8.4.1 NASA oversight subcommittee report

7.8.4.2 Keaton/Gelfand proposal

7.8.4.3 Hoffman/Neihoff

7.8.4.4 Edward Teller's lunar laboratory

7.8.4.5 Lunar manufacturing proposal

7.8.4.6 NASA lunar base scenario

7.8.4.7 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory proposal

7.8.4.8 The Ride report

7.8.4.9 Summary of lunar proposals

7.9 Financial considerations

7.10 Financial summary

7.11 Political summary

8.0 The polar lunar base

8.1 Site selection

8.2 The lunar polar railroad

8.3 Construction of the main electromagnetic launcher

8.4 Cost of the primary EMPL

8.5 Power for the launcher

8.6 Perturbations of the orbit of the Moon

8.8 Political summary

9.0 The design of the spaceship

9.1 Apartment size and weight estimates

9.2 Hydroponic food production

9.3 Comparison of grown vs carried food supplies

9.4 The spaceship environment

9.5 Crew size and composition

9.6 The primary power source - nuclear energy

9.7 Spaceship assembly and checkout

10.0 Phobos and Deimos

10.2 Visiting Phobos

10.3 The first spaceship to Phobos

10.3.1 The EMPL

10.3.2 Projectiles and projectile racks

10.3.3 Nuclear power systems

10.3.4 Hydroponic food production facilities

10.3.5 Crew's quarters

10.3.6 Androids

10.3.7 Fuel production facilities

10.3.8 Mars landing systems

10.3.9 Mars observation equipment

10.4 Outline of the Phobos mission

10.5 Timeline

11.0 Mars, the red planet

11.1 Costs of Mars projects

11.1.1 Past Mars projects

11.1.1.1 Mariner 6 & 7

11.1.1.2 Mariner 8 & 9

11.1.1.3 Viking 1 & 2

11.1.1.4 Summary of past Mars projects

11.1.2 Current Mars projects

11.1.2.1 Japanese Mars orbiter

11.1.2.2 US Mars Observer

11.1.2.3 CIS

11.1.2.4 Summary of current Mars projects

11.1.3 Future projects

11.1.3.1 Unmanned Mars missions

11.1.3.1.1 NASA Ames mini-landers

11.1.3.1.2 NASA JPL micro-rovers

11.1.3.1.3 Science Applications' Mars sample-return

11.1.3.1.4 NASA JPL Mars sample-return

11.1.3.1.5 Summary of unmanned Mars proposals

11.1.3.2 Manned Mars missions

11.1.3.2.1 Lawrence Livermore National Lab plan

11.1.3.2.2 Lunar base study group

11.1.3.2.3 Stanford/Soviet study

11.1.3.2.4 Synthesis Group plan

11.1.3.2.5 Baker/Zubrin Mars mission

11.1.3.2.6 Ball Aerospace Corp

11.1.3.2.7 NASA Moon/Mars project

11.1.3.2.8 An Independent Mars Expedition

11.1.3.2.9 The Ride Report

11.1.3.2.10 Summary of manned Mars proposals

11.2 Should we finance a Mars sample-return mission?

11.3 Lifting the crew to LEO via space planes

11.3.1 Buran

11.3.2 Hermes

11.3.3 HL-20

11.3.4 Hope

11.3.5 Hotol

11.3.6 Japanese NASP

11.3.7 US NASP

11.3.8 Sanger

11.3.9 SDI SSTO

11.3.10 Space van

11.3.11 Space shuttle

11.3.12 Other space planes

11.3.13 Summary of space planes

11.4 Lifting the crew from LEO to HEO

11.5 Daily schedule for the crew

11.6 Arrival at Mars

11.7 Mars landing

11.8 Timeline

11.9.1 Ticket sales

11.9.2 Television rights

11.9.3 Martian souvenirs

11.9.4 Profits

11.9.5 Helium-3 sales

12.0 Jupiter, the giant planet

12.1 The Galilean satellites

12.2 Selecting a home in the Jovian system

12.3 Outline of an unmanned mission to Callisto

12.4 Recovering Helium-3 from Jupiter

12.5 The manned spaceship to Jupiter

12.6 Timeline